New gauged N = 8, D = 4 supergravities

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/24/013zbMATH Open1194.83099arXivhep-th/0204156OpenAlexW3099178625MaRDI QIDQ4453761FDOQ4453761

Authors: C. M. Hull 

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: New gaugings of four dimensional N=8 supergravity are constructed, including one which has a Minkowski space vacuum that preserves N=2 supersymmetry and in which the gauge group is broken to $SU(3)xU(1{)}^2$. Previous gaugings used the form of the ungauged action which is invariant under a rigid $SL(8,R)$ symmetry and promoted a 28-dimensional subgroup ($SO(8),SO(p,8-p)$ or the non-semi-simple contraction $CSO(p,q,8-p-q)$) to a local gauge group. Here, a dual form of the ungauged action is used which is invariant under $S{U}^{*}(8)$ instead of $SL(8,R)$ and new theories are obtained by gauging 28-dimensional subgroups of $S{U}^{*}(8)$. The gauge groups are non-semi-simple and are different real forms of the $CSO(2p,8-2p)$ groups, denoted $CS{O}^{*}(2p,8-2p)$, and the new theories have a rigid SU(2) symmetry. The five dimensional gauged N=8 supergravities are dimensionally reduced to D=4. The $D=5,SO(p,6-p)$ gauge theories reduce, after a duality transformation, to the $D=4,CSO(p,6-p,2)$ gauging while the $S{O}^{*}(6)$ gauge theory reduces to the $D=4,CS{O}^{*}(6,2)$ gauge theory. The new theories are related to the old ones via an analytic continuation. The non-semi-simple gaugings can be dualised to forms with different gauge groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204156

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50)

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